| Oct 28 |
How to reduce your risk for food poisoningIn the wake of America’s recent outbreak of listeria food poisoning in tainted cantaloupes — which has claimed at least 25 lives — Americans must be vigilant about their food and how it’s cleaned and prepared. That means taking several important steps to reduce your risk for food poisoning. (more…)
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| Oct 27 |
Tips on when to see your doctor if you suspect food poisoning The United States is staggering under the weight of food poisoning. An estimated 76 million cases of food-borne poisoning occur in the U.S. yearly, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC.
These cases include a recent outbreak of deadly listeria bacteria borne by tainted cantaloupes which were produced on a farm in Colorado. But fortunately, many of America’s food poisoning cases aren’t nearly as severe, and may involve vomiting and/or diarrhea that lasts for only a day or two. (more…) |
| Oct 19 |
FDA finds source of cantaloupes’ listeria food poisoning at Colorado farm Unsanitary equipment has been found to be the cause of a horrific listeria outbreak in tainted cantaloupes which has killed at least 25 Americans in 12 states and sickened about 100 others — the deadliest food poisoning outbreak in America in 25 years.
The Food and Drug Administration says the outbreak was the result of equipment at a southwestern Colorado facility for Jensen Farms which was old and difficult to clean. It also blamed pools of water on the floor of the facility near employee walkways and equipment.
These findings resulted from a joint investigation by the FDA and the CDC, or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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| Oct 11 |
Listeria outbreak on CBS’s ‘The Good Wife’ is a case of misinformationLawyers should be armed with facts. But the writers of CBS lawyer show The Good Wife had them knee-deep in misinformation this week.
Their Sunday, Oct. 9 episode involved a bizarrely sudden outbreak of listeria at an elementary school, just after children all ate cheese for lunch. They probably all ate other things, too, but Wisconsin cheese was immediately blamed for their vomiting, which was somehow captured on camera as it happened and then heartlessly telecast (both by fictional TV news shows and by The Good Wife itself). (more…) |
| Dec 17 |
Food poisoning kills 3,000 Americans and harms 48 million yearly
That’s 48 million Americans who are sickened by the food they buy, often with nausea, cramps, dehydration, fever and bouts of diarrhea. |
How bad has America’s food poisoning epidemic become? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDPC, it kills at least 3,000 of us yearly and afflicts one in six persons, or almost 17 per cent.| Aug 31 |
Salmonella enteritidis food poisoning victims may need an egg recall lawsuit
In its probe of two Iowa plants from which 550 million eggs were recalled, the federal government has found staggering evidence of manure, rats, flies and other insects contaminating the egg supply. At Wright County Egg (owned by the ironically named Quality Egg), manure was piled so highly around the hen house that doors could not be closed. At Hillandale Farms, rodents ran rampantly, escaped hens tracked manure into the hen house and liquid manure was found seeping from a manure pit. |
Americans are being sickened by tainted eggs harboring | Dec 30 |
Food poisoning kills 5,000 Americans; a food poisoning lawyer bites back
So are we, when it comes to defending your rights in a food poisoning lawsuit. If you or a loved one are harmed by food poisoning, see a physician promptly, and then alert a food poisoning lawyer or attorney with Jim S. Adler & Associates. |
Food poisoning scares come and go, but none should be taken lightly. According to the Food and Drug Administration, about 5,000 Americans annually die due to some form of poisoning in the food they eat. Whether it’s from bad beef, tainted tomatoes or putrid peanuts doesn’t matter. Food can be dangerous — and that’s dead serious.| May 22 |
Drop that burger! Bad beef recall means a bacterium alert
Valley Meats LLC of Coal Valley, Ill. has recalled 95,898 pounds of its ground beef, in a move which the U.S. Department of Agriculture calls a “Class One” recall. In food terms, that’s like “Code Red” — and we don’t mean “medium rare.” It means your chance of being seriously infected by such meat is high. |
Again, Americans are at risk due to food contaminated with dangerous if not deadly bacteria. But this time, it’s not in | Feb 11 |
Salmonella food poisoning outbreak is costing America more than peanuts
Peanut Corp. reportedly found salmonella in its own testing, then “lab shopped” to try to find a lab which would provide a favorable report. Meanwhile, it shipped tainted peanut products to consumers in various states. Many persons have been stricken with salmonella in Minnesota, California, Michigan, Ohio, Massachusetts and Virginia. Still more cases have arisen in Florida, Arizona, North Dakota, Texas, Idaho and New Hampshire. |
The latest atrocities reported from the front lines of America’s salmonella food poisoning battle indicate that the responsible company, Peanut Corporation of America, shipped products to consumers even prior to learning results of lab tests which would reveal salmonella.| Jan 28 |
Taint grows worse on salmonella-poisoning company
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Just when you thought negligence in peanut butter salmonella food poisoning couldn’t get worse, it has. The New York Times reports that Food and Drug Administration officials inspecting Peanut Corporation of America’s plant in southwest Georgia learned that plant leaders knew of salmonella contamination, failed to negate it and issued the tainted food anyway.